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Ecology

Nature

Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Waller Donald M., Rooney Thomas P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...

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Ecology

Flood Cycle Notes from a Changing Planet

Kelly John

ISBN: PB: 9781904955597, Signal Books, April 2009
64 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! 26.6.2008. 9.00 hours. Cloud level has risen sufficiently to see the heights of the island of Hoy. The margin of existence that I had noticed in North Ronaldsay, with its apparent make do approach to the problem of sea encroach...

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Cartography

Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Linkenbach Antje

ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures

Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....

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Ecology

Philosophy

Sick Planet

Debord Guy

ISBN: PB: 9781905422692, Seagull Books, February 2008
104 pp., 17.6x11 cm, 7 halftones

"All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have taken part in these troubles" – Guy Debord. Guy Debord is one of the 20th Century's most prophetic critics. His bestselling work, "Society of...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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Ecology

Listening People, Speaking Earth Contemporary Paganism

Harvey Graham

ISBN: PB: 9781850652724, Hurst Publishers, April 1997
261 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This work introduces the main movements and trends in paganism. Individual chapters focus on druidry, witchcraft, heathenism, goddess spirituality and magic. These are followed by discussions of shamanism and geomancy. Sources...

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Nature

Ecology

Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America With Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa

Gentry Alwyn H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226289441, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
920 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 291 line drawings

To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only fiel...

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Birds

Ecology

Neotropical Birds Ecology and Conservation

Stotz Douglas F., Fitzpatrick John W., Parker III Theodore A., Moskovits Debra K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226776309, ISBN: HB: 9780226776293, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
502 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 46 halftones, 51 line drawings, 64 tables

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pag...

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